Today's work on/in the business - Mon 30 July

1. Assist with remote work on support customer's server. (14hrs 55mins)

The things we do to ourselves sometimes...!

Today's work on/in the business - Fri 27 July

1. Working on process for new Events setup - review events and set up new web page. (50mins)
2. Assist with remote work on support customer's server. (25mins)
3. Work for support customer - further work on new email formats. (25mins)

And then off for a wonderful weekend of relaxation and music in Echuca!

Today's work on/in the business - Thurs 26 July

1. Review progress made this week. (45mins)
2. Update my record of time worked. (15mins)
3. Work for support customer - further work on new email formats and free space on their CRM server again. (9hrs 10mins)
4. Working on process for new Events setup - review events. (35mins)
5. Assist with remote work on support customer's server. (1hr 45mins)

Today's work on/in the business - Wed 25 July

1. Update my record of time worked. (20mins)
2. Review progress made this week. (1hr)
3. BAS. (20mins)
4. Free space on production server. (1hr 10mins)
5. Working on process for new Events setup - review events. (15mins)
6. Website upgrade - planning upgrade to next major platform version - confirm process required on test setup. (2hrs 55mins)
7. Assist with remote work on support customer's server. (4hrs 35mins)
8. Work for support customer - move new email formats to live and send details of information required. (1hr)

Today's work on/in the business - Tues 24 July

1. Update my record of time worked. (15mins)
2. Working on process for new Events setup - review events. (25mins)
3. Review progress made this week. (35mins)
4. Follow up with a couple of existing clients. (15mins)
5. Work on queries from data cleaning organisation for support customer. (10mins)
6. Invoicing - 1 cancelled, none paid. (40mins)
7. Look at the statistics that Google Analytics gives you. 81 visits - so better, 67 new visits - so a good mix of new and existing visitors, 36% search, 23% direct and 41% referral traffic - keyword/site path information shows that current processes are working to bring people to the site, 2.06 pages per visit, 2:05 average time on site - these last figures show people actually look at the site once they find it. (5mins)
8. Read small business blogs. (15mins)
9. Website upgrade - planning upgrade to next major platform version - setup test platform and confirm that process is possible on production server. (2hrs 35mins)
10. Run Malwarebytes scan on my laptop. (2hrs 15mins)

A shorter day (although it doesn't look like it!) because Dave had my laptop for half the morning, checking whether it had the trojan that had been reported - before we worked out it was the other server. This is a lot of the reason why we run Linux on most of our machines.

Today's work on/in the business - Mon 23 July

1. Update my record of time worked. (10mins)
2. Working on process for new Events setup - review events and enter regular events. (3hrs 5mins)
3. Free space on CRM server for support customer and work on queries from data cleaning organisation. (3hrs 10mins)
4. Invoicing - 1 paid. (10mins)
5. Accounting. (20mins)
6. Review progress made this week. (5mins)
7. Website upgrade - planning upgrade to next major platform version - determine initial process. (55mins)
8. Read small business blogs. (15mins)

Today's work on/in the business - Sun 22 July

1. Compact files and free space on my laptop. (2hrs 45mins)
2. Update my record of time worked. (10mins)
3. Defragment my laptop, now there is more space. (1hr 20mins)
4. Review progress made last week and ensure the schedule is right for this week. (40mins)
5. Review the project schedules, adjusted all projects based on actual progress and added 1 week to software schedules. (5mins)
6. Run antivirus scan on my laptop. (1hr 40mins)

Today's work on/in the business - Sat 21 July

1. Compact files and free space on my laptop. (9hrs 15mins)
2. Update my record of time worked. (25mins)
3. Working on process for new Events setup - review events. (5mins)
4. Setup new details for sending emails from CRM for support customer, after new details were supplied. (30mins)

Today's work on/in the business - Fri 20 July

1. Update my record of time worked. (15mins)
2. Website upgrade - planning upgrade to next major platform version - checking next install steps in test environment. (15mins)
3. Review progress made this week. (30mins)
4. Accounting. (15mins)
5. Invoice reconciliation - 1 completed and sent out, 5 continued, 3 started. (1hr 5mins)
6. Run Malwarebytes scan on my laptop. (2hrs 10mins)
7. Download and sort business emails. (1hr 10mins)
8. Investigate issue with sending emails from CRM for support customer - which turned out to be that their new support organisation had changed a vital password without consideration of the impact or notification of the change. (2hrs)

Today's work on/in the business - Thurs 19 July

1. Read small business blogs. (50mins)
2. Update my record of time worked. (5mins)
3. Start investigations for project costing for prospect - finalise proposal and send. (55mins)
4. Website upgrade - planning upgrade to next major platform version - checking install steps in test environment. (10mins)
5. Review progress made this week. (1hr)
6. Look at the statistics that Google Analytics gives you. 81 visits - so better, 68 new visits - so a good mix of new and existing visitors, 33% search, 22% direct and 45% referral traffic - keyword/site path information shows that current processes are working to bring people to the site, 1.99 pages per visit, 1:54 average time on site - these last figures show people actually look at the site once they find it. (5mins)
7. Work for support customer - correspondence re data export. (25mins)
8. Accounting. (3hrs 10mins)
9. Setup new web page for website customer, ready for content to be added. (15mins)
10. Run Malwarebytes scan on my laptop - well, at least up date it. (10mins)

Today's work on/in the business - Wed 18 July

1. Website upgrade - make changes required. (20mins)
2. Update my record of time worked. (15mins)
3. Review progress made this week. (40mins)
4. Start investigations for project costing for prospect - further review of processes and planning. (5hrs 40mins)

Today's work on/in the business - Tues 17 July

1. Update my record of time worked. (10mins)
2. Work for support customer - work on email formats and correspondence re data export. (25mins)
3. Start investigations for project costing for prospect - further review of processes and planning. (3hrs 15mins)
4. Assistance with laptop work for support customer. (1hr 35mins)
5. Working on process for new Events setup - review events. (15mins)
6. Invoice reconciliation - 1 paid, 2 completed and sent out, 2 sent out. (1hr 30mins)
7. Review progress made this week. (20mins)
8. Website upgrade - make changes required. (25mins)

Today's work on/in the business - Mon 16 July

1. Update my record of time worked. (15mins)
2. Review progress made this week. (1hr 10mins)
3. Work for support customer - work on email formats. (2hrs 35mins)
4. Invoice reconciliation - 2 continued. (20mins)
5. Start investigations for project costing for prospect - further review of processes and planning. (2hrs 50mins)

Today's work on/in the business - Sun 15 July

1. Update my record of time worked. (15mins)
2. Read small business blogs. (2hrs 30mins)
3. Review progress made last week and ensure the schedule is right for this week. (45mins)
4. Work for support customer - assist with investigation on issues with mail file. (2hrs 30mins)
5. Start investigations for project costing for prospect - install software and start reviewing processes. (25mins)

And then out for a wonderful evening with Phoenix Lifestyle - dinner and dancing, Xmas in July - a great opportunity to meet new people!

Today's work on/in the business - Sat 14 July

1. Update my record of time worked. (5mins)
2. Review progress made this week. (25mins)
3. Look at the statistics that Google Analytics gives you. 80 visits - so better, 67 new visits - so a good mix of new and existing visitors, 39% search, 20% direct and 41% referral traffic - keyword/site path information shows that current processes are working to bring people to the site, 1.92 pages per visit, 1:24 average time on site - these last figures show people actually look at the site once they find it. (10mins)
4. Accounting. (25mins)
5. Review the project schedules, adjusted all projects based on actual progress and added 1 week to software schedules. (5mins)
6. Invoice reconciliation - 1 paid, 1 completed ready to send out, 4 continued, 4 started, 1 created ready to send out. (1hr 30mins)
7. Work for support customer - assist with investigation on issues with mail file. (2hrs 10mins)
8. Download and sort business emails. (2hrs 30mins)
9. Read small business blogs. (35mins)

Today's work on/in the business - Fri 13 July

1. Update my record of time worked. (10mins)
2. Working on process for new Events setup - review events, edit renewal alerts and check setup for emails. (35mins)
3. Correspondence re urgent issues for Plone development customer. (5mins)
4. Work for support customer - correspondence re integration testing and email formats. (3hrs 35mins)
5. Work for support customer - install software capable of processing 39GB file and start opening (except that the software opened 32GB worth and then crashed! But by that time, Dave had a process working on his MacBook). (2hrs 10mins)

Would have done some more work in the evening, but we headed over to a friend's place for a BBQ and to watch the Tour de France stage - a great night out!

Today's work on/in the business - Thurs 12 July

1. Review progress made this week. (2hrs 20mins)
2. Work for support customer - important data export and correspondence re integration testing. (6hrs 15mins)
3. Update my record of time worked. (5mins)

Today's work on/in the business - Wed 11 July

1. Update my record of time worked. (10mins)
2. Work for support customer - correspondence re integration testing. (30mins)
3. Read small business blogs. (1hr)

A light day, after working through to 6.30am...

Today's work on/in the business - Tues 10 July

1. Update my record of time worked. (10mins)
2. Work for support customer - meeting at their office, work on email formats and test environment setup (which turned out to work only using the third method tried!). (16hrs 25mins)

A LONG day!

Today's work on/in the business - Mon 9 July

1. Further work on export of information required, for support customer - correspondence re the 'missing' entries as well as work on email formats. (5hrs 20mins)
2. Update my record of time worked. (5mins)
3. Review progress made last week and ensure the schedule is right for this week. (45mins)
4. Review the project schedules, adjusted all projects based on actual progress and added 1 week to software schedules. (5mins)
5. Accounting. (20mins)
6. Invoice reconciliation - 2 completed and sent out, 7 continued, 1 started, 1 created and sent out. (2hrs)

Today's work on/in the business - Sun 8 July

1. Update my record of time worked. (5mins)
2. Documentation of urgent issues for Plone development customer. (20mins)
3. Working on process for new Events setup - review events. (15mins)

Today's work on/in the business - Sat 7 July

1. Update my record of time worked. (5mins)
2. Further work on export of information required, for support customer - trying to find the 'missing' entries. (2hrs 50mins)

Today's work on/in the business - Fri 6 July

1. Update my record of time worked. (10mins)
2. Phone call to request data export and then export of information required, for support customer. (8hrs 15mins)
3. Review progress made this week. (40mins)

Today's work on/in the business - Thurs 5 July

1. Update my record of time worked. (15mins)
2. Website upgrade - planning upgrade to next major platform version - includes total upgrade of my virtual machine in order to install latest platform. (9hrs 5mins)
3. Further investigation of urgent issues for Plone development customer. (25mins)
4. Investigate issues for support customer. (25mins)

Today's work on/in the business - Wed 4 July

1. Update my record of time worked. (15mins)
2. Further investigation of urgent issues for Plone development customer. (1hr 25mins)
3. Review progress made this week. (25mins)
4. Website upgrade - planning upgrade to next major platform version - includes total upgrade of my virtual machine in order to install latest platform. (7hrs 35mins)
5. Meeting with new prospect - development work. (3hrs 30mins)
6. Discussion of current status with support customer. (15mins)

Today's work on/in the business - Tues 3 July

1. Update my record of time worked. (10mins)
2. Accounting. (15mins)
3. Investigate issues for support customer. (5hrs 5mins)
4. Review progress made this week. (35mins)
5. Determine whether we met the KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) for June 2012. Thankfully, we met most of them - the obvious one that failed being my requirement to exercise (I am falling back into my old bad habits, but have a closer gym membership now) and we need to work on contacting new prospects too (still). Of course, as I've been trying to catch up after that finished, the online networking KPI was not met - and probably won't be met till later this year either. (5mins)
6. Look at the statistics that Google Analytics gives you. 80 visits - so better, 65 new visits - so a good mix of new and existing visitors, 41% search, 19% direct and 40% referral traffic - keyword/site path information shows that current processes are working to bring people to the site, 2.09 pages per visit, 1:42 average time on site - these last figures show people actually look at the site once they find it. (10mins)
7. Working on process for new Events setup - look at why email not received. (10mins)

A short day - I stayed up till the end of the Tour de France stage last night - so not really up to par today!

Today's work on/in the business - Mon 2 July

1. Update my record of time worked. (15mins)
2. Review progress made last week and ensure the schedule is right for this week. (20mins)
3. Download and sort business emails. (55mins)
4. Investigate issues for support customer. (4hrs 45mins)
5. Assist with remote work on support customer's server. (50mins)
6. Compress files and free up space. (1hr 25mins)
7. Read small business blogs. (2hrs 20mins)

Today's work on/in the business - Sat 30 June

1. Update my record of time worked. (5mins)
2. Review progress made this week. (45mins)
3. Look at the statistics that Google Analytics gives you. 87 visits - so better, 68 new visits - so a good mix of new and existing visitors, 36% search, 19% direct and 45% referral traffic - keyword/site path information shows that current processes are working to bring people to the site, 2.08 pages per visit, 1:27 average time on site - these last figures show people actually look at the site once they find it. (5mins)
4. Accounting. (55mins)
5. Invoice reconciliation - 20 moved to next month, 2 completed and sent out, 13 amended and sent out, 4 continued, 2 started, 1 created and sent out. (2hrs 10mins)
6. Assist with remote work on support customer's server. (10mins)
7. Working on process for new Events setup - subscription plan issue. (25mins)
8. Review the project schedules, adjusted all projects based on actual progress and added 1 week to software schedules. (5mins)

And I actually had a day off on Sunday! :-)